Crash : Bench Mark et The Golden Soup // Londres // 2009

0:04 Um so we’re a group that have come together specifically for crash um and we’ve called ourselves quantitative teasing it’s kind of where money goes into um the economy um and basically kind of devalues the uh the value of money by printing more um and it’s kind of a play on the term quantitative easing uh so it’s kind of teasing the kind of City for kind of clinging to their kind of old ways so we basically created a series of um bench Plax which sort of commemorated um this post capitalist the capitalist present um imagining we were in the post capitalist future so um uh they sort of

0:51 Memorialized things like easy credit um and by now pay later slogans so kind of philosophies that people lived by now now which are kind of you know um the project is kind of well kind of tentatively titled uh a benchmark in post capitalism so we kind of hope that that is what it is so crash is an amazing project that kind of encompasses loads and loads of things um there’s kind of performances there’s actions happening in the square mile there’s um a course that’s been running for ages that’s just been teaching you how to kind of do

1:32 Everything that you might need to survive uh kind of come the kind of climate change has kind of hit and we’ve kind of arrived in this post capitalist future we kind of feel like we can survive within that and enjoy ourselves and um I’ve learned Lots about kind of um direct action and sort of uh more activist sort of techniques like sort of just things like like uh lock on than terminologies that I previously had no idea what they what they meant um yeah I think um that I’ve just leared an incredible amount um from kind of consensus decision making how to work with new groups of people and really how

2:20 A lot of the things that you learn within an art practice can be so applicable to um to kind of finding new ways of approaching direct action

0:07 Political subversive activist artist yeah it is questioning the meaning of value and we see like if uh because bankers like to speculate on money from other people and now we see what they feel about consuming gold and not just selling and buying it it changed the meaning of values a bit like burning money if you want

0:48 This event is a post-capitalistic event which underlines that it needs to be some responsibility from the artist and some change in society it’s a vegetable stock homemade vegetable stocks with carrots onions we cooked it all night and then we add the gold because many people never had the experience of eating gold but it’s eatable and it’s um yeah 22 carrots no no no it’s probably eatable yeah and then i’m going to put it on chocolate and everything we decided

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